Cyber Hack - Podcast Rankings and reviews

This is everything I want in a podcast: twists and turns, great storytelling, new fascinating information! One host have spent a lot of their career in North Korea, and has amazing witnesses and speakers come on the show. I have read many defector stories but none of them reveal the info about the North Korea that this show drives into! I couldn’t stop listening.

Storytelling is just great, the host do an amazing job to tell a very complicated story and to give the right amount of context and back story. The topic is fascinating, even for people like me that knows nothing about cybersecurity. I enjoyed the podcast and binge listen!

Season 1 was incredible, 5 stars, and season 2 had potential; however, the hosts mannerisms seriously devalue the content of the show. The female host uses an unnatural and forced cadence and inflection in her speech patterns, and the male host has an aggressively obvious speech impediment (he can’t say his Rs and instead pronounces them like Ws). There is a possibility that this R-W swap is a lesser known British accent, but either way, unfortunately, his way of speaking is distracting, and a more suitable host definitely should have been chosen.

Aside from these critiques, the show has a lot of interesting and detailed information on the previously secret financial operations and crimes the Hermit Nation conducts to keep their missile program afloat. It’s really intriguing to learn about the lengths that North Korea will resort to to secure funds. Overall I enjoyed this podcast, despite its hosts.

Came across this podcast by sheer chance and within one day went through all of its episodes…not only is it grabbing in the way it’s narrated, I very much enjoyed the historic context and the various perspectives shared.

This should have been a five star podcast given the topic. Instead, each episode or two completely changes direction with an entirely new topic/hack that is covered too broadly and superficially. Also felt like it was made for young, dumb or uneducated listeners. I was kind of hoping the entire series would be on the Sony hack !